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The Covington Star
J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor.
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CfeTALgS'lME:
RAflf MARK
A Voice from the Lxmitive Munition.
Mr- A. W. Uawkf.s— Dear Sir: The
pantiscopic glasses you furnished me
some time since, give excellent satisfac
non. I have tested them by use, and
must say t’iey are unequaled in clearness
and brilliancy by any that I baye ever
worn.
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
A Business Man’s Clear Vision.
New York City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. K. IIawkes— Dear Sir ; Your
patent eye glasses received some time
since, and am very much gratified at the
wonderful change that has come over
my eyesight since I have discarded my
old glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aqar.
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of
New York City.
All eyes fitted by J. M. Levy, Coving¬
ton, Ga.
These glasses are not suppPad to ped¬
dlers at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Wholesale Depots, Atlanta, Ga.
Franklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA,
Resident Physician & Surgeon.
Gynecology, diseases of women and
children, Obstetrics, and all Chroni#
diseases I have of a private natuie, command, a special¬
ty. a horse at my
which will enable me to attend calls
in the surrounding country, as we) lav
my city practice.
FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. TIL U
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Bedloe's Island in New York harbor is
to be the new immigrants’ landing place.
- Switzerland has called out all her armed
forces for campaign exercises this year.
India is taking China’s tea trade, and sh«
promises to be the future source of supply.
Thf. Kansas State Board of Agriculture re¬
ports that the population of that State ha!
declined 56,638 the past year.
The Socialist party of Germany number!
now nearly the a million Empire’s adherents, not quite one
fiftieth of population.
The principal towns of Oregon claim from
t wo to four times as many inha bitants as they
had according to the census of 1880.
Eighty-three railroad corn panics report
gross earnings of $23,506,374 month for January, $3,- a
gain over the same last vear of
832,000.
There were 2308 suicides in England last
year, which is the largest number ever re¬
corded. Males largely outnumber the fe¬
males.
The exports of corn from Baltimore for
three consecutive days recently were the
largest for the time ever known, aggregating
963,603 bushels.
The excess of exports from this country
over imports in 1889 amounted to over $59,
000,000, the best showing in the history of
the United States.
The German Government has decided to
onnect Berlin with the Baltic Sea by meaus
of a ship canal, and the works will be com¬
menced in a few months.
The external debt of Brazil is reckoned at
about $143,500,000, but there is also an inter¬
nal debt of nearly,$250,000,000, for which Rio
de Janeiro is mainly responsible.
The terrible distress prevailing in Russian
Poland owing to the failure of last year’s
crops has now extended to Galicia, where the
dearth of provisions and fodder is very seri¬
ous.
The United States Circuit Court at Cin
•innati has decided that parties sending a
lun for a debtoa a card resembling a postal
■ard are not guilty of violating the postal
laws.
The largest shaft in Africa has just been
opened fn the Kimberley diamond three fields. inches by It
measures twenty-three feet feet
seven feet nine inches, and is to be 1000
deep.
A party of bandits near Puerto Principe,
Cuba, recently kidnapped Senor Genaro Fer¬
nandez, a planter of that locality, but subse¬
quently $2000 by released him on the payment of
his friends.
The Italian naval manoeuvres, which are
to begin in July, will extend over three
months, pari and upward of twenty ironclads are
to take in them, beside second class
ships, cruisers and torpedo boats.
A convention of cotton planters was held
at Little Rock, Ark., to discuss plans for the
examination of the cotton worm. Professor
Woodward advocated turning over the land,
and exposing it to the killing frost.
A special committee of the Russian Gov¬
ernment has drawn up a scheme for the con¬
struction of the Siberian railway, according
to which the line, 4375 miles in length, will be
000 completed iu ten years, at a cost of 250,000,
roubles.
Sharp Trading.
A gentleman, seeing two sharpers, and
gain, wishing asked to know who made the best bar¬
one:
“ How much did you sell tlie horse for,
Sam?”
“Five dollars, sir.”
“ Ob, Sam, how could you do that?”
“ Oh, the horse is lame, sir.”
The gentleman then said to the other
i sharper:
“ How could you buy that horse, Jim?
It is lame.”
" Never you mind; it is only the bad
shoeing Hie that makes it lame.”
[ “Sam, gentleman then called Sam again :
the horse is not lame,only badly
shod.”
deceive “No, Air; I ouly had it badly shod to
the buyer.”
I he gentleman spoke to Jim again :
wive “ Say. the sh< >e was badly put on to de
you.”
5 on nevermind, sir; I paid him with
counterfeit bill. j I unkce Blade.
Last year Germany granted only 3i)2l
patents, while England granted 1)773,
»nd the United States *
20.420.
A WIZARD OF FINANCE,
HABITS AND CHARACTERISTICS
OF JAY GOULD.
Tlie Noted Financier Described liy
One Who Knows Him Well—His
Early Life and Peculiarities.
John E. McCann, the private secre¬
tary of Russell Sage, has an article on
Jay Gould iu the New York Epoch. The
noted financier is fifty-four years old, and
is described by the writer as U very
modest and unassuming, ” with a voice
i . as low and sweet as Annie Laurie’s
was. D Further extracts from the article
aie as appended:
As a boy, up in Roxbury, Delaware
County, Mr. Gould used to run around
bare-footed and help his sisters to milk
his father’s twenty cows, after driving
them in from pasture. But he really
started in life as book-keeper to a black¬
smith. From that he became a clerk ju
a country store. Then he started out as
a surveyor, but his employer was a cheat,
and lett young Gould literally “in the
woods,” where he had a “good cry >9
and a little prayer. The first money he
ever earned was for making a “noon
mark” for a farmer, an hour after the ery
and prayer. It was just §1. From that
time on, he made money almost as fast as
he could count it, until he bought from
Commodore Garrison the control of the
Missouri Pacific, which was then 287
miles long. He bought it “for fun,
he has since said. Those 287 miles have
up to this writing developed into 10,000
miles.
Mr. Gould thinks that no man ought
to be a failure; if any man is, he says,
then there is something rotten behind
him, either a post or an ancestor. He
does not think that there can ever be an
aristocracy of wealth in this country.
He thinks more of the self-make man
than of the ready-made one. He thinks
that your employe may be your son’s
employer, in time. He believes, from
sun-up to sun-down, in school houses.
Education is protection, he thinks. He
is as tenacious as a biooded bu\l-dpg.
Everyone that has tried to injure him has
got hurt. He rarely touches wine, and
never tobacco. He can get along with
as small an amount of sleep as ever could
the one and only Napoleon. He is a
great reader. He reads all the great
novelists and poets, but he prefers auto¬
biographies and lives of great men. He
is one of the hardest workers in the
world. He is one of the most generous
of men, too. The smallest boy in his of¬
fice receives $100 from him at Christmas
time, and I have known him to give one
of his clerks five times that amount.
One day I saw on my desk in Mr. Rus
sell Sage's office a piece of brown wrap
ping paper on which was written.
win Gould, Merry Christmas, 18S7.
From papa: fifteen bonds at $1000
each. That was something like a
Christmas present, now.
Through all,the years when his office
was adjoining Mr. Sage’s, not one clerk
or boy in it ever paid one penny for
lunch. Lunch was sent in every work
ing day for all hands. Not much for a
rich man to do, you may say? Still, he
needn’t have done it. I remember, also,
4 fellow named Tommy Sheridan, a lit
tie, red-headed, consumptive chap, who
Was dying longer than anyone I ever
knew. Well, up to the day of his death,
Mr. Gould paid him aline salary, for do
ing absolutely nothing, and, after lom
my’s death, money from Mr. Gould went
to Tommy’s family for a long lime.
Nobody ever was loyal to Mr. Gould
without being amply rewarded. No
body was ever disloyal to him without
regretting it. He is a thoroughly human
man—capable of loving, capable of hat
ing. Mr. Gould, more than any other
ten men, has been the builder ol tlie
West. Any man who has ever worked
for aud near Mr. Gould, will swear by,
and tight for, him. I have never heard
him use au oath, nor an offensive expres¬
sion. I believe him to be as clean
minded as a good woman. He idolizes
his children. He worshiped his wife,
tie is more like an elder brother to hit
chicks than a father. They have every
thing they want-few things they do not
wish for. There arc five of them: George,
Edwin, Frank, Harold and Miss Helen.
No children ever had a better mother
than they had. Until they were old
enough to know right front wrong in
print, thev were not allowed to read any
thing till* Mrs. Gould had inspected it.
Mrs. Gould was as generous as her hus
band, too. and in the same quiet wav.
She dreaded seeing her name in the
papers. For vears Mr. Gould has lived
at the corner of Forty-seventh street aud
Fifth avenue in the winter. fn the
summer he is either on his yacht, in
Europe, or up at Irvington. He bought
his place up there in 18S0, for $200,000,
and it is worth $1,000,000 to-day. It
has twenty rooms above the basement, is
3000 feet from the Hudson, has an art
gallery the depth of the house, a'lawn of
ninety-five acres, and a road leading to
the entrance a quarter of a mile long,
There arc sheep,cows,horses and blooded
fowl upon the estate, a hot-house, con
servatorv, and an 900*feet army of gardeners,
The conservatory is long by 450
wide, aud is valued at a quarter of a mil¬
lion.
Mr. Gould rarely looks at the one he
is listening to. I suppose he thinks it
isn’t worth while, after he flashes one
penetrating look at the average man.
But if be talks to you he generally keeps
his bright brown eyes upon you. He is
a splendid listener, apparently. But I
should never advise a man to flatter him
self that Mr. Gould's thoughts aren't
occasionally miles away whence is talk
ing with him. Mp. Gould goes regularly
j 0 Or. Paxton's church in Forty-second
street, Mr. Gould paid $180(1 for his
pew $300 more than the next highest
bidder’s bid. I
Mr. Gould rarely takes any notice of ,
»be bitter things written of him. He can
write as well himself as anyone who has
ever written about him. He said, years
a-To, that he was accused of things he
had never done, and abused for (he
doings of others. He tries to be on good !
term! with all the quarrelsome people lie meets. but, He
i* anything but a man; ;
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. MARCH
“unfortunately,” he says, “I am not
sociable. M He is not a sport, as Keene,
Osborne, ’VVoerishoeffcr, Bloodgood and
dozens of other Wall street men were.
Ho is fonder of the library than of the
Casino. He prefers the home to the
dress circle. He is the most domestic
of men. I have never hi: ird him speak
ill of anybody,unless that body deserved
it; and then he said little, Mr. Gould
is a man of action, not of words.
Mr. Muldoon,the handsome,champion,
and gentlemanly wrestler, tells me that
an infallible sign of death is a “stringy”
neck. That is, a neck with hollows in
it deep enough to put one’s knuckles in.
Weil, Mr. Gould’s neck is that kind of a
one, I am sorry to say. The whole
trouble with Mr. Gould is a most miser¬
able stomach. I hope, for oue, that he
will live for years to come. But he’s got
to die to have his great work universally
appreciated.
WISE WORDS.
Death borders upon our birth and oui
cradle stands in the grave.
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends
rough-hew them how we will.
Cowards falter, but danger is often
overcome by those who bravely dare.
Associate yourself with men of good
quality if you esteem your own reputa¬
tion ; for it is better to be alone than in
bad company.
Let your conversation be without mal¬
ice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable
and commendable nature; and, in all
causes of passion, admit reason to govern.
Utter not base and frivolous things
amongst grave and learned men; noi
very difficult questions or subjects among
the ignorant; nor things hard to be be¬
lieved.
Play not the peacock, looking every¬
where about you to see if you be well
decked, if your shoes fit well, if your
stockings set neatly, and clothes hand¬
somely.
Take all admonitions thankfully, in
what time or place so ever given; but af¬
terward, not being culpable, take a time
or place convenient to let him know it
that gave them.
Speak not of doleful things in time of
mirth, norat the table; speak not of
melancholy things, as death and wounds,
and if others mention them, change, if
you can, the discourse. Tell not your
dreams, but to your intimate friend.
A Tall Snake Story.
^ correspondent sends to a Calcuttj
(India) paper the following extraordinary
sua jj e story, which he declares is true ir
[ sver y respect : It appears that the travel
j er;; w cre journeying in the direction of
Ha zaribagh; and, the day being hot.
they became weary and sought for saw
place where they could rest and refresl
: themselves with food. They
came acres;
I a clearing in the jungle, or, as one ol
j | them ci cscr ibes it, ell adeserted of garden,neat On tht
which was a w water.
i )orc i e r of the well was a huge flat stone,
( j u this the travelers sat, aud were pre
j p ar jng to take their meal, when suddenly
thevwere flung from their seats, one into
the*well and the other beyond. To his
1 horror the latter saw a huge black-spotted
snakCi ma king off as quick as possible
; nto t h e jungle. Having extracted his
companion from the well, which fortun
ately was not ( j ee p ) they satisfied them¬
, se )ves that the snake must have been re
pos j n g underneath the stone, and, feel
j n ^ r unc0 mfortable by their weight, flung
; them off in the unceremonious manner
aescriVaod. The story is told with cir
cums tantial details, that give it an air of
t ru th; but as the experience of the men
who have had adventures with huge
snakes does not coincide with that of the
j I [ WO travelers in hg question, all is that can be
sa y j g t jj at t occurrence most un
usual.
The Yanity of Hail* Dyeing;
Hair . dyeing^ . , not entity ,. . feminine . . .
a
, fad, says a barber to a Globe-Democrat re¬
P° rtcr - It is exceptional for men to take
j the trouble aild sl ' ffer the annoyance and
: ev ™ wh,c u .h continual bleaching
aud d v< ; ln « enta ' 1 ’ But *°“ e mt ’ n are
- and they
; S™ 11 ? of the weakness, are no/ .
:i II actors or men who ive y elr Wl
, d nal goner
a “ P er f *PP«w««*.
I prefer gold, but men wjio aiei is
| satisfied with le na ura co or o ieir
ha ' r a m08t variably go in for black.
/ r ° kce P U P. the dece Pj lon > two ’ lf not
I thr f c applications a week, are necessary
f ad one customer of name had me visit
! , him alternate day for over three
vears. Dyeing the hair kills it m time,
j and makes it brittle and thin during the
whfle , the , number , of , scalp. . di
-
' ;ases sacrificed at the shrine of vanity u
b( ; veral ba ^ be rs noW decll f aU
d yemg , business, and r I am one of the
n » mbel - “ ? ear8 gone by I did my
share ’ and 3 admit having made .quantity
of nK,ne ? “t it. The acids used are so
strong that they positively make the hn
gers sore, and as the scalp is much more
sensitive than the fingers, the tortures
e » d » red by those who subject their heads
to constant irritation m this manner can
I be more t,asd y imagined than described,
A Bath-Tub 3000 Years Old.
The care with which the excavations
have been carried on in and around the
ruins iu Greece is strangely illustrated by
the fact that in the bath-room, in its
; place where it had actually been used,
was found a portion of an earthenware
tub made of thick terra-cotta; and here
let Dr. Dorpfeld, Schlietnanu's co-work
er, speak of its discovery. “Its form
agreed prettly nearly with that of our
bathing tnbs. It was furnished with a
thick upper rim, and with strong handles
on the sides, and it was painted within
with spiral ornament.” In fact it was
one of the “well-polished bathing tubs
often mentioned by Homer.” And yet,
if the argument be good, and that Tirvns
was destroyed at the date mentioned,
this bathing tub must have lain there for
some 3000 years, so carefully does the
earth preserve records of the past for the
patient worker who carefully knows how
to set about discovering them.—An
York Journal.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
WHII.E the schooner Marion (rimes, from
Georges Bay to Gloucester, wes tailor* at anchor
during washed overboard a heavy aud gale drowned three werz
John- Jacob Astor’s will wasadmitted to
probate in New York. $700,(flO is left to
public institutions, and the bulk if the estate
to his son, William Waldorf Aster.
The Coroner’s jury at Great lialls, N. H.,
found a verdict against Isaac B: Satvtello,
oharged with killing his brother Hiram.
The School Board of Boston, Mass., de¬
cided to drop Anderson’s History from the
list of text books. This is the bt>ok which
caused so much trouble mi account of its
reference to religious matters.
George Clark, convicted as one of the
murderers of William McCausland, an Alle¬
gheny Penn. City drover, was hanged at Wayues
burg.
The United States steamer Enterprise,
having on board the body of George H. Pen¬
dleton, late Minister to Germany, has arrived
at the port of New York.
The Legislature Liquor Committee reported of the unanimously Massachu¬
setts
against enacting a straight prohibitory law,
and also against reducing the high license
fee from $1000 to $500.
South and West.
Will Leaphart, a young colored man,
has been sentenced to death in the Lexington
County girl (S. of C.) sixteen. Court for criminally assault¬
ing a
Three children of Hunt Bead, of Franklin
County, Ga., were They burned to death in their
father’s house. were The aged respectively
six, four and two years. skeleton of the
youngest was found in the arms of the old
en.
Mrs. Samtha Baker and her eight-year
old son were burned to death in a stable at
Salina, Kan.
The bill making General Robert Lie's
birthday a legal holiday has passed the \ ir
ginia House of Representatives.
Bayfield, The Superior Wis., collapsed. Ice Company's One building fa¬ at
man was
tally and several others more or less seriously
injured.
Charles Hanley and William ' Dobson
were found in a round-house at Terre
Haute. Ind., the former dead and the latter
unconscious. They had entered and through became the
windows asphyxiated during by escaping the night
gases.
The President sent to the Senate the fol¬
lowing nominations: Census, Joseph Third A. Wingfield, District
to be Virginia, Supervisor of Albert F. Price, United
of and
States Marshal, District of North Dakota.
Heavy rains have occurred at Bowling
Green and Hopkinsville, Kv. The streams
were swollen, and at Bowling Green the
flood from Green River drove many families
from their homes, At Hopkinsville about
one million pounds of tobacco was destroyed.
County Treasurhb Flynn, of Custer
County, S. D., is short in his accounts $12,
000 .
During a revenue raid on an illicit dis¬
tillery near Hillsboro, N. C., a colored man
connected with the distillery was shot and
killed by ths officers, and Revenue Agent
Kirkpatrick was shot in the face aud had oue
eye put out.
Brownsville. Teau., was visited by a
severe cyclone and five minutes later the
town was almost In riiins.
Later news received at Phoenix. Ariz.,
from the scene of the Walnut Grove disaster
is more appalling than the first reports.
Four couriers arrived from the dam and
brought tidings that fully 150 lives were lost
and *2,000,000 worth of property destroyed.
A terrible hm-ricane swept over a part
of Northern Texas. The Masonic Hall i in
Gainesville was torn to pieces, Fe Railroad the Court depot
House uprooted,the Santa
wrecked and twenty buildings several blown down.
Nobody was killed, but persons were
injured. The damage will aggregate $330,
000 .
A little colored girl, aged Clayton, seven 111., y< ears,
was burned to death at by
matches having set fire to her clothing. In
ner death agonies the child tore large strips
'at burned flesh from her body.
Three Louisville |Ky.) physicians aud two
colored assistants were robbi surprised in a New
Albany (lnd.) cemetery ing graves. One
of the assistants was kiiled, two of the doc¬
tors arrested with one of the colored men,
and one doctor escaped.
A passenger train was wrecked above
Vincennes, Ind., by the giving away of a
bridge over a small stream. The whole train,
excepting a sleeper, Theengineer went through into the
water and mud. aud fireman
were killed, and several other persons were
injured.
A cloud-burst caused Martindale Creek,
near Cambridge City, Ind.. to rise so quickly
that a woman and three children of the Hall
family were drowned. They belonged to a
party of gypsies encamped near the stream.
The County Court House at Vancouver,
Wash., which was also used as a jail, has
been completely destroyed by fire. Loss,
$100,000.
The City Council of Charleston, resolution S. C.,
unanimously adopted a visit Charleston inviting
Vice-President Morton to on
his trip to the South, and appointed a com¬
mittee to make arrangements to receive him.
“Norfolk and Western,” the first-class
coach of the Eastbound passenger train, was
wrecked at Roanoke, Va., bv the truck jump¬
ing the track and upsetting the coach. Eleven
persons were injured.
AN enormous body of of earth, hill including
several acres of surface a which rises
abruptly from the Ohio River on the Ken¬
tucky side, opposite river with Lawrenceburg, frightful sound. Ind.,
slioped and into boulders the were carried a if the hill
Trees as
had been upheaved by an earthquake.
A DOG licked the ciiapped hands of Alfred
CarboUgb, a boy of Sedalia, Mo., and the
child died in terrible agony of hydrophobia.
Bob Pope, a white man of bad character,
and his son, eleven years old, were shot dead
while riding from Cmnming’S Mill to their
home in Hampton County, S. C.
The officers of the Bankers’ Mutual Relief
Association of San Francisco have tied with
the entire receipts. The victims will number
aver five thousand.
A delegation from forty-two Germau
singing and other societies, representing 15,
m to 20,000 citizens, went from Baltimore,
Md.. to Annapolis to object to the provision
of the proposed High License bill.
The rival Kansas towns. Ingalls In and
Cimarron, are again at var. a fight
which has taken place one Cinarron man
was killed and five Ingalli men were
wounded.
Miss Anna Hall, drowned daughto- of W. C.
Hall, of Louisville, was in the ocean
aear Lake "Worth, Fla.
Brown Washington, colortd, . . who as
saulted a little white girl in Morgan County,
3a., has been lynched.
Washington.
Additional nominations by the Presi
dent: Harold M. Sewall, of W. Matte, Consul
General at Apia: Henry Andrews, o*
Ohio Oawwil at Hankow; John Fwoler. of
Massachusetts, Consul at Ningp*; William
B McCreery of Michigan. Cental at Val
pariso- John S. Tweeis, of Fitel. Pennsylvania, of Roch
Consul at Naples; Charles E.
ester Collector of Internal Revento Twenty
»tohth District of New York: Jichard G.
Banks. Collector of Customs for tie District
of Norfork and Portsmouth, 'a.
The Pan-American Congress railroad adfpted loaned peso- ing
dittoes l;i providing fer a Congress. '
,he nations represented in the
Ihf. House >■P o' n ‘ FaiiCommit- i>
^ has appointed i a e ... ■- jtt^y J a,. ‘ ,
Chicago Fair bill. J
.
Contracts for the coustnicumol gun
boats Nos. 5 aud6 have been a•var'M to tht
Bath Iron Works, at Bath, Mo., atpheir bid
at $637,000 for both vessels J
Commodore George B. White, Docks, who Chief of
the Bureau of Yards and was
stricken down by an apoplectic attack, has
died at his residence.
Foreign.
Five hundred of the King of Dahomey's
Senegal. troops attacked The French the French repulsed posts at them Kotonou,
anil
killed sixty of their number.
A barrel of powder exploded at Cieuaga
Station, a suburb of Havana, CUDa, destroy¬
ing a house and injuring thirty workmen,
seven of them severely.
While a large number of workmen were
en aged about the Flora Concert Hall, which
is Being erected thirty-eight in Hamburg, the in new the cupola ruins.
fell, burying men
Five were taken out dead, and eight were
rescued severely injured. Five others wera
missing.
During the Portuguese election at Cezim
bra there was a riot. The District Adminis¬
trator was shot and seriously wounded.
Several supporters of the Government were
injured.
Seventy murdered bodies of infants were
found on the premises of Skohiski, at War
saw, Poland, whose house was recently
burned.
A French torpedo boat went ashore at
Costa de Mira, Portugal. Her crew were
saved.
A band of Albanians made a descent upon
the villages of Bablgak, Robuci and Bab
rush, in old Servia, Turkey, aud plundered
them. Many of the inhabitants were
tortured to death by the robbers.
Russell Harrison, son of President
Harrison, arrived in Havana, Cuba, on the
steamer Mascotte, from Tampa, Fia.
Abraham Lincoln, the only sou of R obert
T. Lincoln, the United States Minister to
England, has died at London.
Charles Sottell, a Swiss, was arrested
at Guaymas, Mexico, on a charge of counter¬
feiting American money. Sottell, it is
stated, has branch establishments turough
out the State of Sonora.
Prince Bismarck has defined to permit
the German West Africa Company to sell
part of its possessions to an Anglo-Dutcr
syndicate.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS#
In the Senate.
44th Day.— The conference report on the
Mil to increase the pensions of totally by Mr. dis¬
abled Davis pensioners was presented to....Bills
and was agreed were
passed increasing the limits of cost for
public buildings as follows: San Francisco
(site), to $800,000; Sacramento, Cal., to $300,
000; El Passo, Tex., to$200,000; Omaha, Neb.,
to £2,000,000; also making appropriations for
public buildings as follows: Annapolis, Md.,
$75,000; Kansas City. Mo., $3,500,000; Los An¬
geles, Cal. -(additional), $350,000; Alle¬
gheny, Penn., $250,000; Beaver Falls, Penn.,
$50,000; New London, Conn., $100,000; Kan.,
Youngstown, Martinsburg, Ohio, $100,000; W. Atchison. Va., $125,000;
$100,000; Zanesville, Ohio;
Selma, Kan., $150,000; Conn., and
Emporia, Waterbury, Kan.; Danbury, $100,000 each....
Conn., relating
The bill to amend the law to
copyrights having been reached oil the cal¬
endar, Mr. George objected to its
consideration. After some discussion the
bill was laid aside____Mr. Edmunds
introduced a bill to punish while crimes in
against officers of the United States
discharge of their duties; and (by request) a
bill to reorganize the rank and pay of the
personnel of the navy. Referred.
45th Day.— Mr. Chandler offered a resolu¬
tion that certain sentences in Mr. Call’s re¬
cent attack upon him, appearing in the Rec
ord, and not uttered in debate, be expunged and
from the Record. A debate followed
Mr. Chandler’s resolution went over for one
day____The Blair Educational bill came up
anil Mr. Faulkner addressed the Senate in op¬
position to it....Mr. Paddock introduced s
bill to amend the Interstate Commerce Act.
The amendment is intended to provide relief
for the farmers in the West, who are unabk
at present to market their crops on account
of the high freight rates prevailing on the
long haul.
4C>TH Day.—M r. Call, speaking upon the
Chandler Mr. resolution of the vigorous previous language, day, at
tacked Chandler in
and was rebuked by Mr. Sherman____
Among the bills reported and placed on the
calendar was one by Mr, Jones from the
Committee on Finance, to authorize the pur¬
chase of gold and silver bullion and therefor---- the issue
of Treasury notes in payment granting
Among the bills passed was one a
pension of $100 a month to the widow ol
Major-General Judean Kilpatrick unfin¬ The
Blair Education bill was taken up as
ished business. Mr. Coke spoke for and Mr.
Stanford against it.
47th Day.— Twenty-six pension and pri¬
vate bills were passed—also several public
bills, among them the following: Appropria¬
ting public $100,000 building for the at enlargement^ Topeka, Kan,; of
the
appropriating $75,000 for a Vfc..... pub¬
lie building at St. Albans.
Mr. Evarts, from the Committee on Library,
reported favorably a bill appropriating battlefield $30,- of
!)00 for the erection on the
Trenton of a monument commemorating
that battle.... Mr. Call introduced a biil pro¬
viding that a duty of $1 shall bfe collected on
every box containing 200 or more oranges
imported into the United States, and that a
corresponding duty shall be imposed on all
packages of oranges imported----The Blair
bill was further debated.
48th Day.— The Vice-President presented
resolutions from the convention of granite
iealers of the New England States, held at
Boston, declaring it to be the sense of the
convention that the city of New York
affords advantages and facilities for the Fair
of 1892 DO other city in the Union
.,.. A bill was passed for the erection of a
bronze statue of Christopher Columbus. It
appropriates $75,000, and fixes the site in
Washington ____Mr. Sherman’s Anti-Trust
bill came up for debate, and went oyer with¬
out action____A number of nominations were
-eceived from the President, among them
:hat of Henry C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to
succeed Judge Brewer on the Circuit bench.
• In the House.
50th Day.—T he debate on the World’i
Fair bills was continued and came to an end,
New York having the last hour of the dis¬
cussion, as it had had the first.
51st Day.— The House voted on the ques¬
tion of the site for the World’s Fab, with the
result of choosing Chicago on the eighth bal¬
lot. At the first ballot, the House gave *
preliminary opinion in favor of Chicago as
against New York by a vote of 115 to 72. St.
Louis received 61 and Washington got 56 on
the first ballot. The last Speaker’s ballot, announce follows;
ment was, on the as
“The whole number of votes cast on thii
ballot is 307, of which 154 is a majority. Ol
these votes Chicago has received 157; New
York, 107; St. Louis, 25, and Washington, House has
18. Accordingly the order of the
0Xocut6^ “
52dDay.—A bill to discontinue the coinage
of $1 and $3 gold pieces and the three cent
nickel piece was passed.... In Committee of
the Whole the House resumed the considera
tion of the Oklahoma bill.
53 d Day.—T he Atkinson-Peudleton con
tested election case was debated----The fol
lowing were among the bills introduced: By
Mr- Clume— Reviving the rank of Lieutenant
General of the Armv. Also for additional
Inspector-Generals, with the rank of major.
gy Mr. Peters—Providing for the appoint
me utof nine Irrigation Commissioner!, who
are to be charged with the preparation and
execution of general plans for the irrigation
jf arid areas of the country.
»4tH Da v.-Immc liately after the reading
tnd approval of the journal, Mr. Rowel
-ailed up the contested election ease of Atkin
ion against Pendleton. A f ter a short debate.
«,j,. Atkinson, the Republican toO----The contestant Houst
was ^ted by a voteof 162
r , ro ,> e sded m CommiLee of the Whole to the
casideration of the Urgent Deficiency bill
A SUMMER COTTAGE.
Design for an Ideal Home, With Full
Description and Estimate of Cost.
(Copyright by ths Author.)
Every close observer knows that the aver
age length of life is increasing. The thirty
three years’ average, computed from data
collected early an the century, is believed to
be a number of years short of the true aver¬
age of the present time. Adults who hava
sound minds and bodies may hope, not with¬
out reason, for one hundred years of life.
The imprudent even may reach eighty years
and weaklings cover the span of three score
and ten.
Better food, purer air, less medicine, ath¬
letics and systematic exercise, hygienic
clothing, tribute sanitary dwellings—all these con¬
to the increasing fullness of years.
But dwellers in cities are indebted for the
greatest benefits, perhaps, to the recent cus¬
tom of exchanging their city homes, during
the boated term, for homes in the country.
Boarding accommodations offered by farm
houses and seaside and mountain hotels do
not fully answer all requirements. The ideal
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summer home, where health, comfort and
economy are ever present, is found in the
Summer preferable Cottage.
The site for a Summer Cottage
is one that has a dry, sandy or gravelly soil;
r ,here no cellar is needed and the expense of
building neglect of it it aud for the the danger attending the the
greater part of year,
are eliminated from the plans.
Following will be found a brief description
of the design illustrating this article:
Size of Structure: Width (front), includ¬
ing verandas, forty-eight feet; depth, includ¬
ing Height veranda. thirty-five feet. First
of Stories: story, eleven
feet; second story, ten feet.
Materials for Exterior Walls:. Founda¬
tions, posts or brick piers; first story, clap¬
boards; second story, shingles and panels;
roof, shingles. Stairs, white
Interior Finish: wood or
clear pine; trim, soft partition wood; floors, walls pine. No
plaster is used. The are made
of one ami one-quarter iuch planks covered
with paper.
Exterior Colors: Body of house, light
brown; all trim, cornices, dark piazza posts, bal¬
cony rail and balusters, brown; sashes,
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dark red: front door, dark brown with light
brown panels; veranda floors, oiled; rafters
and ceinugof verandas to be varnished; roof
shingles, Accommodations: dark red. verandas, all
The rooms
and their sizes, and all closets are shown Ivy
the floor plans given herewith. The rooms
are small, but they are well lighted aud well
ventilated, and there are many of them fora
small house. Hummer residents “live” on the
verandas and in the halls, which should lie
ample as they are iu this design. To enlarge
rooms build the house six feat wider (three
feet on each end), which will add three feet
to the size of each room. This addition to
size will co d about $150. and will not change
the style of the exterior.
Special Features: A strong and serviceable
cottage with an attractive exterior and am¬
ple room for a family of average size. In¬
tended for summer occupancy plastering only, but by
sheathing the exterior ami the in¬
terior it will be warm enough for wintei-u.se.
A large hall w-ith a fire-place provides a
cheerful place of resort during a stress of
weather. If a detached kitchen is built as
preferred iu the South, it should connect
with the pantry by a covered way ; then the
present kitchen may be used for othes pur¬
poses,
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The store room on the second floor may be
converted into a bath room. The plumbing
for a cold water supply is simple and inex¬
pensive. built described, in the neighbor¬
Cost, as
hood of New York city, $1200. Without a
doubt this estimate will be disputed by small
wits who. having no exact knowledge about
anything, deride everything, and by builders
whose interests are involved. Builders
ought to get more money, they are poorly
paid for the skillful work they do. there is no
disputing that. But competition among
them makes the price. When the price is too
low there is nobody to blame blit themselves.
R. W. Shoppell, Architect,
Swinging the Twins.
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It is the intention of the Canadian Paclffo
Railway Pacific Company, as soon as one of their
lew steamers is completed, to carry
;!>e first Canadian excursion party around
;he world. It is estimated that the round
-rip will be made within sixty-five days.
With a last Atlantic s rvico the trip could
ot made in fifty-three day*.
VOL. XVI, NO, 16 .
THE LABOirtaLD.
A motion i i grant amnesty to convicted
rtrikers was defeated in the French Chamber
of Deputies.
Workingmen held a meeting in Cooper
Union, New York, to further the eight-hour
work-dav movement.
Great preparations for eight-hour de¬
monstrations are lieing made in the indus¬
trial centres of Spain.
The meeting of the Council held in Berlin,
Germany, to consider the William. labor problems,
was attended by Emperor
During January ninety-five new farmers'
alliances were organized in Nebraska, and
about sixty during February.
Martin Irc.vs, who figured so prominently
in the great railroad strike in the Southwest
in 1880, is now a farmer in Oregon Countv.
Mo.
It is officially announced that the labor
conference, which it was proposed to hold in
Berne, has been abandoned by the Swiss
Government.
The Lanier reports that out of sixty-seven
cities and towns reporting twenty-seven weri
“dull” or “very dull,” twenty-six “fair” anc
fourteen “good.”
There is a movement on foot to abolish
the office of President, in the American Fede¬
ration of Labor, the unions of Socialist ten¬
dencies leading the agitation.
It is expected that about 75,000 miners in
strike Pennsylvania, May Ohio, Indiana and Illinois will
on l for an advance of wage!
from seventy-three to ninety cents per ton.
The engineering industries of Great Brit¬
ain are in such a flourishing condition as to
cause a seavcity of men, the unions being un¬
able to satisfy the requirements of employ¬
ers.
The delegates of the building trades favor¬
ing the eight-hour movement decided that
they would prefer to make New York th*
centre of the fight on May 1, instead of Pitts¬
burg.
The “Livi-et,” the workman’s book, in
which his successive employers record the
date of his entering and leaving their ser¬
vice, is on the eve of being abolished in
France.
A membership card from the New York
Steam-Fitters’ Union is considered as evi¬
dence of the owner being a first-class work¬
man by most of the employers throughout the
country.
The annual report of the labor bureau
at Castle Carden, New York, that was issued a
few days ago It shows situations have
been found during i the last year for 15,422
immigrants.
A soap factory has been started in Char¬
leston, and some of the South Carolina pa
jers are advising the people that there made to outside buy its
product in preference to
of the State.
Baron von Berlepsch, Prussian Minister
of Commerce, will preside Berlin. over The the Labor
Conference to be held in discus¬
sions of the Conference will be carried on in
the French language.
There are 471 branches, with tit}, 713
members, in the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters. They are in spoken. every land The where
English is the language head¬
quarters are in London.
A labor man who recently went to
Mexico says the cotton operatives He there are
little better off than slaves. says they
work twelve and fifteen hours a day for
$2.80 a week, and must work at night, on
Sundays or holidays if their overseers
should order them to do so.
The Russian exiles in New York city,many
of whom are members of labor organizations,
are about to arrange for a mass meetiug to
protest against sending a petition to tht
Czar asking him to relent do upon the political beg
offenders in Siberia; they not want to
where only force will be available to chang#
a system of outrageous brutality.
The striking glassworkere of Bohemia
have sent an appeal to the workingmen of ail
countries to aiu them in their distress, They
say that it is impossible to live on from tUret
to four florins—one florin whicn being equal pittanci to forty
cents—for two weeks, was the
they struck against. They are determined tt
gain an increase or die in the attempt.
At the last half yearly it meeting reported of that th(
London dock strikes companies had only was brought in¬
the recent not an
crease of wages to the workmen, bnt had re¬
sulted hi making them less efficient, so that
eight men now had to be hired to do tin
work that six did before. The increase is
the cost of labor for the last half over th#
first half of 1889 was $200,000.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The Prussian gun maker, Krupp, has an
income of *1,400,000.
The health of the Pope is now better than
it has been for many months.
General Longstrekt is keeping Ga. a hotel
in the little town of Gainesville,
Moody, the Revivalist, has been New drawing York.
large crowd* at Bible readings in
A great-grandchild of Thomas Jefferson
is an employe in the Patent Office at Washing
ton.
Ewtor Smith, of the Philadelphia Press.
our new Minister to Russia, never tastes
wine.
There is a report that Prince Ferdinand,
of Bulgaria, will shortly wed a very wealthy
American Catholic.
Thebe is again talk to the effect that the
Prince of Wales may come to this country
during the summer.
It is said that Bismarck was once offered
$1 a word for all that he might contribute to
an American magazine.
Ox the day that the late Sultan of Zanzibar
died the Emperor of Germany made him a
Knight of the Red Eagle.
Emperor William, of Germany, has been
dissuaded from publishing a volume of poems
which he wrote as a youth.
Senator Hearst, of California, worked
jn his father’s farm iu Missouri before he
went to San Francisco, forty years ago.
Justice Lamar, of the Supreme Court of
the United States, will deliver an address at
the Boston University Law School on June4.
C S CLARKE, a philanthropic Pittsburgh-,
seconded Mr. Carnegie's motion for a $1,0)0
)00 library by the donation of a
if act to put ft on.
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras
writes an almost illegible baud. It is said
that this eccentricity disguises soma equally
eccentric spelling. Brooklyn, who is
Mrs Hettie Green, of
worth about $50,000,000, has, it is said en
dowed over one hundred churches and estab¬
lished fifty schools.
Judge Holmes, of Massachusetts, does not
look much like his illustrious father, the
“Autocrat.” He is taller, and wears a milt
tary-looking moustache.
Bishop Potter recently declared Yale tc
be “pre-eminently the American university,
where a man is estimated for waat he really
is, w /ithout regard to wealth or birth.
General Robert C. Schenck is a familial
figure at Washington. His form is a trifl*
•lowed with the weight of <0 years, but hn
sparkle as brightly as ever, aud his mine
wes of its clearness.
:re lost none Austrian col
The death of his former had beer
associated league Andrassy. with wuom he
in so many confirmed important Prince diplomatic Bis
affair' seems to have retire froir
iiarck in his determination to
public life. Puiladel
' Samuel J. Randall s friends in
ohia have raised a fund of«i*.«»to ba pr<
“ Mr. Randall Mr. UandaU s only
teJ to is his salary, and his lout
ouree of income have made serious m
fines-, is believed to
•oads upon it.
. _ South .. Caro _
Senator Wade Hampton, o,
ina While on a recent hunt m his nat.y.
?tate killed two deer, the antlers of wmc.i
-cent to Senators Gray and Mm neison.
ie ornament the wails ot tearoom of
They now Committee ou Naval Affaire,
;he Senate